Step 2: Stand part 1

Build this. See all those orange connectors, replace em with yellows and also the purple and green connector too.

Step 3: Big wheel

Build this around the big wheel. The purples, green and greys should be reds.

Step 4: Stand part 2

Build this with the wheel on it.

Step 5: Connect em

Put them together and the trumpet stand is done.

Step 6: Hair dryer holder

Build this, mod it for your hair dryer.

Step 7: Holder

This must be at a variable height for different hair dryers.

Step 8: Connect em

Connect them together just like this.

Step 9: In with the dryer

Put the dryer in here and put that white in to seal it, use that red to hold the dryer straight.
You're done! Put trumpet on stand, plug the dryer in and turn it on its LOWEST setting. wait 1 min, turn off and play your wonderfully warm trumpet!

Please help me make this a BIG invention, tell your friends, family and anyone who plays trumpet!

That is very creative! I love the idea of keeping the horn warm, it may actually reduce the amount of condensation (spit) when you pick it up to play since the temp of the instrument wont be colder than your breath. I would be interested in how to use a much quieter fan than a hairdryer with the heating element, then it could actually be used in situations like an orchestra pit or outdoor performances where ambient air temp is cold.

MerleCorey is correct. The expansion of the metal has very little to do with your pitch. The density of the air has everything to do with your pitch. Warming up properly before playing has nothing to do with the temperature of your horn and everything to do with your face. A proper warm up makes your face go from its normal "non-playing-relaxed-lazy-mode" to the focused "wow-I'm-actually-being-used" mode. I would say think of warming up like reminding your face how to play. You can just blow air through your horn to get it up to the temperature it will be while you play, but you still won't be "warmed up."

well I play trombone but our band teacher makes all the trumpet players blow warm air through their horns and then tunes them right before a concert same with saxes,clarinets,flutes and mostly everything else.

Correct. You want to bring your horn up to the temperature at which you will be performing when you tune. I've played my fair share of christmas parades. I know that cold mouthpieces are no fun. But still, the logic behind a warm mouthpiece and a warm horn and a "warmed-up" face are all different.

Yup, they do. Although pointing a hair drier down the bell won't help much. Instruments that use the mouth are designed so that when the heat from your breath expands the material of the instrument the sound isn't distorted. But that means when the instrument is cold, it doesn't sound right, and that's why most players warm up before really playing.

There's no way that this could work well. Even if the warm air somehow reached up through to the main lead pipe, the rest of the pipes coming from each valve wouldn't be reached because they would be closed off.

yes, as it heats up, the air around it heats up, thus eating up the other pipes, I tried freezing my trumpet for 10 min, the left it, and it took longer to be playable then when I took it out and put on this stand

this is an interesting and creative idea, but it seems more like a proof of concept demonstration. I might even say there is a reason that this was "the only one EVER made." I will point out two ways this might be actually bad idea, even though it's not entirely stupid. I wouldn't want to put a blow driver with an element that close to my lacquered bell; the composition of the materials on the bell adds so to the sound. I would let any deteriorating of the lacquer on any of my instruments occur naturally though out their lives, and not hasten it any way by forcing it to warm up with a hair dryer - right after the freezing. And you cant count on this to warm it up to the playing temperature, how do you know you will not be get too warm, and be sharp sharp. AND YOU JUST NEED TO WARM UP....EVERY ONE DOes But, its good that you are thinking about this. its good that you are thinking about tuning. Especially in a cold weather place. but not really--maybe keep a blow dryer in a gig bag and keep it blowing to stay a little warmer maybe. i dunno ....would nt do this though I am not knocking it.

um, well, I can't really understand the way you speak, so ,yeah. Also. the hair dryer could be further away, but mine is a weak voltage. Also, where I live, it's freezing (minus 40 C) this is for playing outside. Also, my trumpet is not laqured, it is just brass, so I guess I will add that laqured instruments aren't the greatest to do this with.

no you are incorrect...if you are warm you are going sharp........thats why its called warming up sharp is higher (the up part of warming up) \but yes just warm up normally...thats the real key here. there is no substitute for warming up I SHOULD KNOW I AM A BAND DIRECTOR!

if a trumpet is cold the pitch can be changed drastically as it warms up, and since most people will tune right as they start playing their trumpet will be cold and even though the trumpet is intune as it is cold as it begins to heat up the pitch changes, leaving you badly out of tune make sense?

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